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"Deaf Poets Society:
for Writers with
Disabilities"
by Corinne Segal
‘Someone is always trying to control our
narrative’
The manifesto for the Deaf Poets Society, published
in June, calls disability justice “the civil rights
movement you’ve never heard of.” Some of its
accomplishments are little noticed by able-bodied
people: entrance ramps, wide hallways, even closed
captioning are all results of efforts to make daily life
more accessible.
But when it comes to literature, people with
disabilities are rarely represented, poetry editor Ava
C. Cipri said. “It’s very easy to be discouraged in the
larger literary community when there’s so little
representation in terms of disabled individuals,” she
said.
Poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, who has
lived with fibromyalgia for two decades, found
community while performing in a South Asian poetry
space in Toronto in the mid-1990s and later in the
Bay area, where she found a “hotbed” of disability
organizing and culture.
In particular, Palestinian poet Suheir Hammad, her
teacher at the Voices of Our Nations writers of color
retreat, had an effect on her growth as a writer. With
Hammad’s help, she realized that she did not have to
package herself—working class, femme, disabled,
Sri Lankan poet for others
A)
Use the passage below from “Deaf Poets
Society” to answer the question.
What is the central idea of this passage?
(1 point)
The Deaf Poets society has been met with
strong and effective opposition.
The term disabled has different meanings to
different people.
People with disabilities often have a difficult
time telling their own stories.
During the 1990s, people with disabilities
began to organize

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The central idea of the passage is that **people with disabilities often have a difficult time telling their own stories.** The passage discusses the lack of representation of disabled individuals in literature and highlights the experiences of poets with disabilities who have sought community and support in their writing.
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